Kakira Sugar Limited
Adding Value to Sugarcane since 1930 Kakira Sugar Limited is Uganda’s leading processor of sugarcane, with a state-of-the-art fully integrated complex to add value to every by-product. Kakira crushes over 2 million tonnes of cane per year to produce: • Over 180,000 tonnes of sugar, half the national sugar production • 51 MW of green electric power from bagasse – the residue from cane crushing • …
Profile
- Industry
- Biorefining, Energy, Food ingredients, Waste & circular economy
- Topics
- Sugar, palm oil & agri-commodity processing, Bioethanol, Yeast, fermentation & food ingredients, Biomass, bagasse & waste valorisation
- Role
- Producer — “…imited is a leading Ugandan manufacturer and the flagship enterprise of the Madhvani Group [1][2][3]. Founded…”
- Parent / group
- Madhvani Group
- Why it is bioeconomy
- Kakira Sugar Limited is a major Ugandan sugar manufacturer that utilizes sugarcane for sugar production, ethanol distillation, and bagasse-based electricity co-generation.
- Found via
- Tongaat Hulett; Omnicane; [Peer] Agroindústrias do Vale do São Francisco - Agrovale; [Peer] Compañía Azucarera Valdez
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News & status 6
- 2026-03-30 Sugar Giants Kakira & Kinyara Bashed As Govt Reverses Nabanja Directive Banning Roadside Weigh Bridges – mulengeranews.comKakira Sugar Works (Kakira Sugar Limited) is portrayed as a major, powerful player in Uganda’s sugar industry whose practices are accused of anti-competitive behavior, including resistance to new entrants, alleged cheating at weighbridges, and reluctance to …
- 2026-02-17 Farmers complain over low price of sugarcane | MonitorKakira Sugar Limited has reduced its cane price by Shs4,000 per ton without warning, contributing to concerns about low prices affecting farmers' livelihoods and future sugar supply.
- 2025-05-29 Fire Outbreak at Kakira Exposes Gaps in Sugar Mill Safety, Spurs Call for Modern Fire Surveillance - Insight Post UgandaKakira Sugar Works Limited successfully contained a bagasse fire with no injuries and no production disruption, but the incident highlights gaps in safety and underscores the push for modern fire surveillance and detection systems across Ugandan sugar mills.
- 2026-04-22 Ugandans to pay more for fuel, sugar, cement as Excise Duty Bill passes - The Observer Media LtdThe article notes that the Excise Duty Bill increases levies on sugar, including from Kakira Sugar and other factories; specifically, sugar duty rises from Shs 100 to Shs 300 per kilogram, affecting Kakira Sugar’s products along with others. One to two …
- 2025-02-03 URA to use weighbridges to enhance compliance in the sugar industry - Uganda Revenue AuthorityKakira Sugar Limited’s CFO, Satish Sawhney, welcomed URA’s innovations (EFRIS and DTS) for streamlining compliance, but urged better integration of the DTS with Kakira’s operational systems.
- 2026-01-13 Uganda: Busoga sugarcane farmers accuse millers of ignoring minimum price order - ChiniMandiKakira Sugar Factory is cited as adhering to the government-set temporary minimum price of 125,000 Shillings per tonne for sugarcane, unlike some other mills that are accused of underpaying farmers in Uganda’s Busoga region.
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Ownership & investors 2
| parent | East African Holdings Ltd |
| parent | Madhvani Group |
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